See you soon! The Daily will be on summer break next week, returning after the July 4 holiday. Stay safe, stay kind.
In advance of the break next week, this Friday issue is a podcasting snack pack. A variety show. A charcuterie board, if you’re fancy. Beneath the mini features there’s a mega-list of upcoming events, including a treat for our Australian friends and an exciting free festival coming to Virginia in October.
Apple Podcasts Connect (briefly) goes dark tomorrow. Due to scheduled maintenance, the service will be unavailable for up to three hours starting at 6:00 am PT. This is your reminder to complete any critical deliveries or changes ahead of time.
Julie Shapiro is leaving Radiotopia and PRX. After six years of leadership at the independent network, she’ll be joining British podcast studio Novel. Shapiro wrote an essay last fall that every podcaster should read. Like all good things, it begins with Snoop Dogg’s comments on dressage in the Olympics.
Need an excuse to not listen to someone’s podcast? To help you “decline politely,” Mark Suroviec (WorkPlay Solutions) has come up with 29 ready-made cop outs. Keep it simple with “I don’t have ears,” or dig a little deeper: “It’s against my religion. A religion with very strict rules that I made up 2 minutes before I got your text message.”
Give us your questions for podcast listeners. PM is planning a study involving thousands of them, and research will be based on creators’ responses to this survey. Please share your thoughts! It will take five minutes tops, even if you overthink every question. (I would know.) Results will be presented at PM22 in August.
Reply All has ended. Next stop? In the show’s final episode, founding co-host Alex Goldman spun a dream for his next project: A TV drama following the iconic Crypt Keeper after “Tales From the Crypt” gets canceled. That’s right: A cackling animatronic puppet, dealing with life as a single dad trying to make ends meet in Hollywood.
There’s so much more I want to write, but will leave it at this. Thanks to Alex Goldman, thousands of us know a.) how to track down a spam call kingpin and b.) that it’s perfectly normal to sit down in the shower sometimes. The end of Reply All will lead to something special, and we’ll be ready to listen.
On June 28, The Creators will change our understanding of the podcast industry. From Sounds Profitable, this is the first credible study of podcast creators in America. Based on four quarters of data from Edison Podcast Metrics, these demographics have been impractical to observe until now.
The report will also look at social media behaviors, platforms, preferred genres, and even paid subscription behaviors. This valuable data will highlight key opportunities to improve industry diversity and identify areas that need more investment and outreach that can inform a better path forward.
The study is supported by Edison Research and nine sponsors who care about the space and those whose voices power it. Stay curious, podcasters – Bryan Barletta and Tom Webster will present a free, 30-minute webinar on Tuesday, June 28 at 1:00 pm ET. After the webinar, the presentation will be made available to all.
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